Hello, I'm Peng Yi, your guide. Welcome to Yuelu Mountain, the scenic spotof Changsha.
Yuelu Mountain is located in the West Bank of Xiangjiang River in ChangshaCity, with a total area of 1 It covers an area of 36 square kilometers. It is apart of Hengshan Mountain, one of the five mountains. There are 72 peaks inNanyue Mountain, headed by Huiyan peak in Hengyang City, Hunan Province. It issaid that the North geese come from the south. From autumn to spring, they nolonger fly south over this peak. They just spend the cold winter in this warmplace like spring. They wait until spring comes and then go north, so they arecalled Huiyan peak. Wang Bo, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem in prefaceto Tengwang Pavilion: "the wild geese are frightened by the cold, and the soundbreaks the Hengyang river.". As we all know, Hengyang City is known as"Yancheng". This is how it got its name. The word "Lu" of Yuelu mountain means"at the foot of the mountain" in the ancient Chinese. Yuelu Mountain is namedbecause it is the last of the 72 peaks in Nanyue.
Yuelu Mountain is not high in the sea. The highest peak is only 300 meters,but it is very famous. The main reason is that at the foot of the mountain thereis one of the four famous pavilions in China, aiwan Pavilion. Aiwanting,formerly known as "hongyeting", is also known as "aifengting", which is namedafter the famous poet Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty who said, "stop and sit in themaple forest at night, frost leaves are more red than February flowers". MaoZedong, a great man of a generation, also had a long history with AI Wan Ting:as early as 1913 to 1921, when he was in the First Normal University of HunanProvince, Mao Zedong often talked with his teachers, friends, elders andrevolutionary comrades at the side of AI Wan Ting at the foot of Yuelu Mountainto point out the country, encourage the writing and freely talk about therevolutionary ideal. After the founding of the people's Republic of China,Chairman Mao wrote "Ai Wan Ting" in calligraphy at the invitation of PresidentLi Da of Hunan University in 1952. Now, the plaque on AI Wan Ting is ChairmanMao's handwriting.
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